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Question 76695: An airplane covered 10 miles of its route while decreasing its altitude by 10,000 feet. Find the slope of the airplane's line of descent. Round to the nearest hundredth.
I know that 1 mi = 5280 feet Answer by funmath(2933) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! An airplane covered 10 miles of its route while decreasing its altitude by 10,000 feet. Find the slope of the airplane's line of descent. Round to the nearest hundredth.
It is decreasing in altitude (rise) by 10,000ft: -10,000ft
It traveled a horizontal distance (run) of
Slope=rise/run
slope=-10,000ft/52800ft=-.189393939=-.19
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